Hey, Hey Waffle Gang. I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more relationship stories. And if you do love a Reddit story, why not consider him like, subscribe, maybe that notification bell too. Let's crack on with today's first story, which comes from throw a loving father and says am i the a whole

for not wanting to officially adopt my daughter this is long and messy in high school i had two

best friends mark would be 32 and may 32 female i 30 male got kicked out of the house when I turned 16. Mark's family took

me in and became like my adopted parents. I'm two years younger. Mark and May started dating

when they were juniors in high school. After they graduated, Mark joined the military. During his

first leave, May became pregnant. Shortly after

his return to service, Mark passed away. We were devastated. She at the time was staying

with Mark's parents and I was still living there. I took her to all of her appointment, helped

her through a pregnancy. They put Mark's name on the birth certificate. By this time I had graduated early and was looking to go to local college.

I became busy with school but helped any time I could.

Three years later I graduated, got a good job and my own place.

May moved in with me with her now three-year-old daughter Alice.

Alice started calling me Dada. We tried to persuade

her not to do that, but we failed. A year of us living together, I started having real feelings

for May. I talked to Mark's parents and they gave me the green light. Nothing happened between

us up until this point. Two years later, we married. One year after that,

she gave birth to our daughter Jenny. Yesterday was Alice's 12th birthday. It was just me,

May, Alice, Jenny and Mark's parents. We have told her about Mark throughout the years and

she knows that he is really her dad. When Alice finished up opening

her presents, she pulled a last one out and handed it to me. I opened it and it was adoption papers.

At some point Alice told May that she wanted to be officially my daughter. I explained that she is my

daughter and I love her with all my heart. I tried to explain that Mark is her birth father and that she is both his and my daughter.

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